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The national registry of GMO crops is now online. The
public can access the database on www.ogm.gouv.fr by
clicking on ‘Mise sur le marché’. Some 19,800ha of GMOs
were declared on July 4. Six days later, an updated registry
listed 21,174ha of GMOs.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
The bird protection society, the LPO (Ligue pour la
Protection des Oiseaux) has launched a new award, the
Macareux d’Or – the Golden Puffin. René Nozerand, an
agent at the
hunting and
wildlife authority
(Office National de
la Chasse et de la
Faune sauvage) in
the Hérault and
Jacques Gérault,
préfet of the
Rhône-Alpes,
received the award
this year.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
Faucheurs Volontaires, the group of OGM reapers which
opposes genetically-modified foods and is close to former
presidential candidate José Bové, was not invited to the
‘Grenelle Environnement’ proceedings.
Nonetheless active, on July 22 the group met in
Riec-sur-Belon, in Finistère (Brittany). They called again
for 20,000ha of GMOs to be destroyed before the maize
blooms in August or September.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
Jean-Louis Borloo,
(pictured) Minister
of Ecology and
Sustainable
Development,
launched the
government’s plan
for the
environment,
‘Grenelle
Environnement’,
on July 6.
The scheme
will bring together
representatives
from both the state
and civil society to
draft an agenda
with 15 to 20
concrete proposals.
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
The 39-day hunger strike in 2006 by
the UDF député Jean Lassalle, has
not secured future development at the
Toyal site in the Aspe valley.
In April 2006, assurances were
offered by Toyal to the then Interior
Minister Nicolas Sarkozy that the group
would continue to develop the site at
Accous before expanding elsewhere,
and the government committed itself to
a financial contribution towards
developing the factory.
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